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Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall by tamimio on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:32PM (#48862179)
It should be more specific, it spots RC drones operated on ~5.8ghz, it won’t spot RC on 900mhz, nor cellular enabled ones.
Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall by brk on Friday July 10, 2026 @01:00PM (#48862500)
It also appears to have a fairly narrow detection angle. This might work for spotting a drone when you already know roughly where it is, but that problem becomes infinitely harder when you have to scan the entire sky.

RF drone detection has been a challenging problem for quite a while. Lots of solid state radar/RF detection products have emerged in the space, but it is not a trivial problem. And that is for drones with active RF comms, anything flying autonomously is even harder to detect at a far enough range to actually do something about.

Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall by tamimio on Friday July 10, 2026 @01:12PM (#48862614)
> RF drone detection has been a challenging problem for quite a while.

Correct, there is no bullet proof cuas system to this date.

> anything flying autonomously is even harder to detect

Not just autonomously, because even in autonomous mode you would still need other RF like gnss, but you can fly drones without any rf signature at all and utilize a pre captured images saved on board to navigate the drone accurately using its cameras (normal or thermal). In this case, rf interference won’t work, it won’t be detected based on rf signature either, you will have to rely solely on visuals and acoustic, fly at night, and only left with acoustics.. it is a very hard task from technical standpoint.

Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall by NetMageSCW on Saturday July 11, 2026 @03:04PM (#48874767)
GNSS is passive and can’t be tracked, the transmitters are all in orbit.
Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall by tamimio on Saturday July 11, 2026 @04:04PM (#48875352)
Not tracking, jamming. A drone that has no rf dependencies as I mentioned above plus its small footprint is unstoppable, the only current limitations in drones is the endurance.
Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall by adolph on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:40PM (#48862287)
Is that a limitation of the antenna? I though QuadRF uses SDR so can see many frequencies, not just the wifi things like ESPARGOS [0]

From documentation, QuadRF: Operating frequency range of 4.9 - 6.0 GHz (C-Band).

0. https://espargos.net/

Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall by tamimio on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:53PM (#48862412)
Not the antenna, unfortunately, it only operates on the range of 4.9-6ghz.

It would be great to have a wider range like other SDRs but of course the cost will increase exponentially.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/scale-rf/quadrf

Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall by _davide_ on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:34PM (#48862200)
for lack of directonality?
Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall by relaxing on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:36PM (#48862228)
for lack of frequency tuning
Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall by nullpxl on Saturday July 11, 2026 @01:13PM (#48873771)
I'm not super familiar with this area, but couldn't it see harmonics?